Youth Peer Court (YPC) provides a powerful opportunity that amplifies responsibility, reclamation, restoration, and re-affirmation of community values. YPC is a youth-led, community- and equity-based restorative practice education and diversion program that disrupts entry points into the juvenile legal system by creating partnerships with key system stakeholders and the community. Under this framework, trained YPC
A new program diverting teens from the criminal justice system has seen 27 referrals for a variety of criminal offenses, largely related to theft, assault and drug and alcohol violations. Shoplifting and physical disagreements with peers are exactly the kinds of crimes Devanshi Patel expects to see go through the program, run by the nonprofit
CYFA's Pre-Petition Youth Diversion Initiative with ACPD Provides youth who have engaged in harm an opportunity to take actionable accountability for the harm they have caused to others and the community through CYFA's restorative justice programs: Promoting Empathy through Equitable Resolution (PEER) and Youth Peer Court (YPC). Removes unnecessary entry and re-entry points into the
CYFA's Pre-Petition Youth Diversion Initiative with ACPD Provides youth who have engaged in harm an opportunity to take actionable accountability for the harm they have caused to others and the community through CYFA's restorative justice programs: Promoting Empathy through Equitable Resolution (PEER) and Youth Peer Court (YPC). Removes unnecessary entry and re-entry points into the
A Hamilton business owner was able to thwart a robbery after being alerted in a group chat by another store owner who had just been targeted by the same suspects, police said.